The Not Out of Africa Debate Revisited

The Chronicle Review revisits the debate surrounding the work of Mary Lefkowitz whose challenges to Afrocentrism in the early 1990s became a cause celebre in academic circles. Lefkowitz contributes her own thoughts as well. These pieces are as much about academic controversies as about the case in particular, though readers interested in finding out about the debate will be given more than enough of a foundation.